Re: gtk+ 2.24 installation problems

[Roger Davis <rbd soest hawaii edu>]

Thanks, Allin!

I'll give that a try.

Roger

On Sat, 3 Mar 2012, Allin Cottrell wrote:

> On Sat, 3 Mar 2012, Roger Davis wrote:
>
> > > Secondly, there's no point in building/installing obsolete "unstable" 
> > > versions of the libraries in question (e.g. glib 2.27.93): use current 
> > > stable versions, which for glib means 2.28.7 or 2.30.2.
> >
> > I picked 2.27.93 because the gtk+ 2.24 configure told me I needed glib 2.27 
> > or greater. I figured getting the latest sub-release of 2.27 would (1) get 
> > me the most stable 2.27 [...]
>
> In the GTK world, odd "minor" version numbers (such as 27 in this context) 
> indicate "unstable" development releases. Thus the 2.27 development phase led 
> to the stable release of glib 2.28, and the most recent bug-fix variant of 
> glib-2.28 is 2.28.7, so that would be the version of choice -- if you want to 
> avoid possible dependency issues in updating to the current stable version, 
> 2.30.
>
> Allin Cottrell